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From: Mohith BP
Date: Sep 13, 2019 3:14AM

Hi Birkar and All,

Setting aria-modal to true was causing VoiceOver not read the content
inside the modal on iPhones.
I have filed an WebKit bug which was not fixed when I checked couple
of months ago.
Is this works fine now?

Thanks & Regards,
Mohith BP

On 9/12/19, Birkir R. Gunnarsson < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> This is not unexpected.
> Does the dialog element have the attribute aria-modal="true"?
> That should tell screen readers/browsers to hide the background page
> content while the dialog is visible, but even if you have it I suspect
> IE11 does not respect it.
> I think the only approach that would get the job done in IE11 is to
> add aria-hidden="true" to all content outside of the dialog while the
> dialog is viible, make sure to set it to "flase" or remove it when the
> dialog closes.
> And this approach does not work if the dialog is inside the page
> content, because then you would be hiding the dialog as well.
>
>
>
> On 9/12/19, dinesh tripathi via WebAIM-Forum
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> Here is a interesting error I have observed. When a dialog box open in a
>> website, keyboard focus stays inside the modal box using JAWS in IE
>> Browser
>> because the background page is masked but if you used the JAWS keystrokes
>> to
>> pull the list of headings, form fields and links, it will bring all from
>> background page including dialog modal. But this is not happening in
>> Firefox
>> with NVDA.
>> Your thoughts would be helpful.
>> Thank you Dinesh
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>> >> >> >> >>
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